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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 97 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Every year in April, I used to check whether someone had uploaded a new video of a giant squid. I was always so excited! When I was growing up, these things were mythologized nearly to the same degree as unicorns or dragons, so seeing them, even in tatters and bobbing across the surface of the water like a mess of smelly pool noodles, was a nearly religious experience.

I quit this year because AI videos are all that I can find. I don’t need chopped up videos of giant squids stating that they’re “colossal squids” in uncanny AI cadence written by an AI and edited by an AI. I don’t need AI-produced replications of giant squids swimming or melting. I just want to find out whether any more scientific expeditions have filmed a creature I used to consider a legend.

We live in an era beyond objective, filmable truth, and that pisses me off.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It's so sad. I feel like we need to be hoarding all sorts of random media that was put out pre-AI, because it's flooding everything. Videos, music, gaming, historical photos/videos...

Random example: I have a folder of desktop wallpapers that I've been casually adding to for the last decade or so. Literally thousands of them by this point, but I haven't added anything recently because every source is inundated with AI generations now.

[–] Bill@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So when you going to share them? Setup a torrent and we'll seed

I may have to one of these days.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is as good a time as any to recommend downloading a copy of Wikipedia! And if you already have your copy, please seed afterward!

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 2 points 5 days ago

Is it really only 26gbs to get the entirety of Wikipedia?!

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I love seeding Wikipedia but it seems like nobody ever needs me to, there's always like 800 seeders and only 2-3 clients at most, who never connect.

Shrug

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago

I don't even mind AI stuff existing, but there probably should be a tag for it

[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, any particular reason you checked in April every year?

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

None, really. Started devouring every morsel of information I could a bit over a decade ago, until it turned into less than a trickle in April, and then I quit. Then April sprang back the year after, I remembered my compulsion, and I checked for more information again until there was nothing left. And then it turned into a tradition for me the year after

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 56 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Bigfoot was the second shooter at JFK's assassination so he had to go into hiding but was subsequently killed by the CIA

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

subsequently killed by the CIA

And the reverse vampires!

[–] Snailpope@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You mean those very tan people, you can only see in mirrors, who donate blood and love garlic and the lowercase t?

[–] SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] sundray@lemmus.org 3 points 1 week ago

We're through the looking glass here people!

[–] msprout@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Where does The Rand Corporation fit into all of this again?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

CIA kills JFK.
CIA creates Bigfoot.
Bigfoot kills JFK.
CIA kills Bigfoot.

Some Nietzsche shit right there.

[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

The true story: Fives “older self” fired the first shot, it got redirected back at him by „Days of Future Past“ Magneto. But then a SCP-1000 Bigfoot stepped in as the replacement sniper. World History is crazy.

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

They were mad bigfoot beat them to it.

[–] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

And ghosts too. You'd think we'd all be up to our eyeballs in ghosts videos by now but no.

We all know why of course. Ghosts are just lazy. How can I be expected to believe in a group who clearly don't believe in themselves?

Edit: also bigfoot: "no way, those MFs will make we work a job. You ain't catching me with that!"

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago

I feel like there was an uptick in ghost and similar unexplained phenomena sightings every time some new camera technology came out though just from people not understanding the new kinds of artifacts those medias produced.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This is because we have seen a lot of new tech that makes cameras water resistant/proof and technological advancements in submarines. No one's made a new backwoods proof camera yet.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Keep Bigfoot’s name out of your filthy mouth.

Are you talking about Terry?

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can't believe people still think Bigfoot is real. It's obviously just a Yeti in a gorilla suit.

Those water coolers look nothing like a gorilla.

[–] kubica@fedia.io 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh god, the future is going to be full of cameras and images of giant squids.

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Klear@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

We got a lot better at identifying FOs. APs too.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

low quality camera: holy shit what is that? is that an alien?!?! where is my cow?? the aliens took it!!!!

high quality camera: holy shit why is there a hubcap going to space at 999999999mph???

teenagers on TikTok: TODAY WE SRE TAKING THIS COW TO MCDONALD'S!!!!!

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Well, now we get blurry videos from $300m military jets. They are on the case.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hate to say it, but this graph just made the most compelling argument against the noble Squatch I've ever seen. Not that I believed, but this has to be the ultimate hope-killer for true believers.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

I was convinced a long time ago when someone pointed out to me that we've never found a single corpse, set of bones, fossil, etc. of any kind of bigfoot/yeti/etc. ever.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wonder how this graph will be affected by AI image generation

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 days ago

50% year-on-year increase of bigfoot sightings in mcdonalds

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago

Unlabled chart. Smh

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Whoa, I would have never guessed bigfoot onlyfans was so unpopular - at last it's a steady following.

(But it makes sense competing with giant tentacles.)

[–] Dr_Box@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Keep this graph away from my dad. Let the poor man believe!

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